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Will Recession Change America?
Today's economic meltdown will alter countless lives in countless ways for decades to come. As Jeff Greenfield reports, some think that change could be for the better.
Tags: Meltdown, Recession, MoneyWatch, Evening, U.S., Depression, 1930s, 1950s, 2009, Economy, Finance, Money, Spending, Home, Family
Videos 2009-03-27

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Innovation Lessons from the 1930s
History suggests that even the deepest downturns can create huge opportunities for companies with money and ideas. Recent turmoil in global financial markets and its spillover into the real economy have generated considerable interest in the Great Depression. There's much to be fascinated with, both...
Tags: Innovation, Gross Domestic Product, Patent Application, R&D, DuPont Co., Research & Development, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, Functions, Strategy, McKinsey
Articles 2009-01-12
USPS: Superman, Jesse Owens, Roosevelts among stamps honoring 1930s in Celebrate The Century program.
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 August 1998-USPS: Superman, Jesse Owens, Roosevelts among new stamps honoring 1930s in Celebrate The Century program C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:130898 WASHINGTON -- Superman, the legendary man of steel, will return to this planet Sept. 10 when 15 new...
Tags: Education, FDR, INTERNET, stamp, U.S. Postal Service, Y2K
Research articles 1998-08-14
IBD: 1930s DOW vs NASDAQ Correlation
This weekend, Investors Business Daily re-published a chart comparing the NASDAQ since 2000 to the Dow Jones Industrials from the 1930s.  I had stopped using the chart because the Dow staged a much more linear recovery in the 1930s compared the choppy and meandering NASDAQ.  However, the correlation worked well...
Tags: US Market
External links 2008-10-13
Abnormal ocean temperatures caused devastating 1930s US drought: NASA
WASHINGTON AFP ? The devastating drought that crippled US agriculture in the 1930s was caused by disparate temperatures between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, according to a NASA study. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers developed a computer model to study climate over the last 100 years. They...
Tags: NASA, PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2004-03-18
Symposium at Yale School of Architecture Explores American 1930s Modernism.
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 September 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Symposium at Yale School of Architecture Explores American 1930s ModernismC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09232004 New Haven, Conn. - In conjunction with its current exhibition on the Philadelphia landmark building PSFS, the Yale School of Architecture ...
Tags: exhibition, Yale University
Research articles 2004-09-23
France authorises first wolf cull since 1930s
PARIS AFP ? France authorized its first wolf cull since the 1930s in order to reduce a colony of some 50 animals which sheep farmers say are wreaking havoc in the southern Alps. Ecology Minister Serge Lepeltier told a news conference in Paris that up to four wolves can...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, France, Paris, species, wolf
Research articles 2004-07-19
Competition, patriotism and collaboration: the Chinese businessmen of Yogyakarta between the 1930s and 1945.(Statistical Data Included)
During the turbulent years between the 1930s and the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945, Chinese businessmen in Yogyakarta confronted three major issues: competition against the emerging Indonesian entrepreneurs and Japanese business expatriates; patriotism towards their ancestral land China in fighting against Japanese aggression; and collaboration with the new...
Tags: China, collaboration, Government, Indonesia, Japan, Java, leader, Leadership, NFL, occupation, trader
Research articles 2002-06-01
Hollywood to remake 1930s classic "The Women"
LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood stars Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock and Ashley Judd are in talks to star in a remake of the classic 1930s social drama "The Women," the industry press said. Rolling Stones musical icon Mick Jagger will produce the movie for New Line Cinema...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Hollywood, movie, women
Research articles 2004-10-20
Harvard was warm to Nazis in 1930s, researcher says
BOSTON -- Harvard University enhanced the reputation of the Nazi regime when it sanctioned events in the 1930s attended by Nazis, a historian said Sunday. "Harvard remained largely indifferent to the persecution of Germany's Jews," said Stephen H. Norwood, a University of Oklahoma history professor who is writing...
Tags: Harvard University, Nazi
Research articles 2004-11-15
A refresher on the 1930s.(Great Depression)(Brief Article)
With investors reeling and recession on the march, thoughts turn to the Great Depression. Could it happen again? Maybe, if governments try hard FROM a distance of more than 60 years, it should be possible to view the 1930s objectively. What went wrong, how things were...
Tags: America, bank, Federal Reserve Board, recession
Research articles 1998-09-19
The Santa Gang: bank robberies. (profiles for robbers of the 1870s, 1930s, 1980s and 1990s differ; today's robbers may be on the right-wing fringe)(Brief Article)
Although banks in America are not getting robbed as zealously as in the early 1990s, this sort of theft remains a considerable cottage industry see chart. Do the sort of people who perpetrate it tell us something about the time we live in? The men who took...
Tags: bank, FBI, Government
Research articles 1996-02-03
From farm to factory: transitions in work, gender, and leisure at Banning Mill, 1910-1930s.
Abstract This study explores new and traditional forms of leisure enjoyed by white southern rural millhands at Banning Mill between 1910 and the 1930s. As they moved from farm to factory, millhands experienced unfamiliar working conditions, changes in gender roles in and outside the home, and...
Tags: church, Georgia, Hanson, South, University of West Georgia, women
Research articles 2006-06-22
Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s.(Review)
INDIAN RESERVED WATER RIGHTS: THE WINTERS DOCTRINE IN ITS SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT, 1880s-1930s. By John Shurts. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 333. $39.95. A single, century-old court decision affects the water rights of nearly everyone in the West. The Supreme...
Tags: benefit, Coffin, diversion, Government, Montana, river, SOFTWARE, statute, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-05-01
The Forgotten Air Force: French Air Doctrine in the 1930s - Net Assessment - Book Review
The Forgotten Air Force: French Air Doctrine in the 1930s by Anthony Christopher Cain. Smithsonian Institution Press (http://www.sipress.si.edu), 750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 4300, Washington, D.C. 20560-0950, 2002, 248 pages, $34.95 hardcover. The rapid collapse of France in 1940--the country fell in six weeks to German assault--was a...
Tags: Air Force, Britain, France, leader, Leadership, Manufacturing, U.S.
Research articles 2002-09-22
Current Recession Is Tracking the 1930s Bear Market
Plan B Economics submits: The following is a simple comparison of today's market to that of the 1930s...no economic analysis here... Today we’re 19 months from the S&P 500 peak in October 2007. How does the past 19 months compare to the 19 months after the S&P 500 peak in...
Tags: US Market, Plan B Economics
External links 2009-05-17
Farmers in `worst crisis since 1930s'
FARMERS WILL today call on the Governor of the Bank of England to alleviate what they say is their worst crisis since the 1930s. Ben Gill, the president of the National Farmers' Union, will meet Eddie George and tell him that high interest rates and a resulting strong pound are...
Tags: Farmers
Research articles 1999-05-24
First Oklahoma City University wrestling team since the 1930s finds
When Oklahoma City University wrestling coach Archie Randall confesses he feels blessed to coach the first OCU wrestling team since the 1930s, he isn't kidding. In September, he and 25 wrestlers will make their new home in the former Bethel Assembly of God Church at NW 30th Street...
Tags: Randall
Research articles 2006-08-07
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s
Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s by Barbara Keys (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006), 274 pp. Reviewed by Gordon MacDonald, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. At the beginning of the 21st century sport is a common language spoken and culture lived...
Tags: FIFA, International Olympic Committee
Research articles 2007-01-01
Murder and merrymaking: the "seen" of the Crime in Renoir's 1930s cinema
In French cinema of the 1930s, murder of both men and women recurs with striking frequency and provides the shattering climax in a number of important films. Jean Renoir's 1931 La Chienne inaugurates a proto-noir atmosphere and plot structure in an urban tale of prostitution and murder, and this dark...
Tags: Legrand S.A.
Research articles 2007-12-22
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